Wednesday, October 30, 2019

October 30, 2019



SEERS  AND  HEARERS 

Thank God for seers
who help us to see
what might be right
in front of us - or what
our parents saw and
we didn’t know it.
Their photos, their
pictures, their movies
help us all to see.

Thank God for hearers
who help us to hear
the sounds and the
songs that have been
all around us or the
music and the melodies
our parents and grand-
parents heard when
they were growing up.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019

See and hear two songs and the
sights Joe Heaney from Galway,
Ireland gives us. He speaks
stories and sings songs in Gaelic
the language of my parents. 
Seosamh O hEanai - Joe Heaney

died in May of 1984 - and thank
God hundreds of his songs have
been saved.

October  30, 2019 


Thought for today: 


“Purity does not lie in separation from, but in deeper penetration into the universe.”  


Teilhard de Chardin

Tuesday, October 29, 2019




WALK  AWAY

Walking away when angry -
Smart move.  We see much
more from a distance. When
we walk we talk to ourselves.
We don’t get blurt stains on
our white shirts or sweaters.
We get wise sayings on our
soul’s T-shirts as well as neat
bumper stickers sayings within.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019


October  29, 2019 



Thought for today: 


“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful / is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”  


Mary Oliver in her poem, 
Franz Marc’s Blue Horses.  
Page 21 in Mary Oliver, 
Devotions, The Selected 
Poems of Mary Oliver.

Monday, October 28, 2019

October 28, 2019

EMPTY  APOLOGIES

I hate fake apologies,
throw-a-ways, excuse me’s.
I want to see apologies,
changes that are obvious,
different.  I want to see
changes that last till the end
of this month and year - at least.



© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019



October  28, 2019 



Thought for today: 


“The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.”  

Jose Ortega y Gasset, 
The Dehumanization of Art -
an essay in Spanish, 1925.
Then Princeton published 
the first English translation 
of the essay paired with another 
entitled "Notes on the Novel." 
Three essays were later added 
to make an expanded edition, 
published in 1968, under the 
title The Dehumanization of Art 
and Other Essays on Art, 
Culture and Literature .

Sunday, October 27, 2019

October 27,  2019

BUDDHA

I’m no Buddha.
I’d get leg cramps
if I had to sit like the Buddha all day.
I wouldn’t notice
kids playing or nudging
each other if my eyes
were closed like that all day.

Well, then are you the Christ?
I talk to people at water fountains.
I see sparrows and learn lessons
from the flowers of the field.
I’m ready to share my bread and wine.
But to be honest,
I’m not ready to pick up a cross each day.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2019